The popular Unity game development platform has dropped its default Mono-based IDE in favor of Visual Studio products in order to leverage new C# and scripting features.

Unity 5 also now supports and impressive total 21 platforms on all shapes and sizes of devices, including Windows, Macs, and Linux (Steam) on desktops, iOS, Android, and even Windows Phone and ...

Unity 5 cuts that number in half by only having to do a single pass per light source, and that should account for some solid performance benefits going forward.